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Mixed martial arts fighter Jason Miller pleaded not guilty Monday to resisting arrest after barricading himself in his Mission Viejo home and live-tweeting his standoff with police. Jason "Mayhem" Miller faces one misdemeanor count of resisting or obstructing a police officer after refusing to surrender to authorities Oct. 9, according to the Orange County Superior Court officials. Miller didn't live-tweet his hearing -- something that would not have sat well with a judge or bailiff. But he took to Twitter afterward, tweeting, "Court went well. I have faith in America and California. I have Faith." Miller also tweeted at the Orange County Sheriff's...

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Mixed martial arts fighter Jason Miller pleaded not guilty Monday to resisting arrest after barricading himself in his Mission Viejo home and live-tweeting his standoff with police.
Jason "Mayhem" Miller faces one misdemeanor count of resisting...

A former English teacher at Newport Harbor High School is suing Newport-Mesa Unified, alleging that district administrators retaliated against her after she publicly questioned the need for students to dissect cat carcasses.
Karen Coyne claims in her...

Two California judges — one in Orange County, the other in Kern County — avoided removal from the bench after they admitted to having sex with women inside their respective chambers and showed remorse, according to a judicial oversight panel decision...

Steve Herr keeps a list in a notebook of every court hearing that's been held for the man accused of killing his son.
So far — four years, three months and 17 days after Sam Herr's death — court has been brought to order 41 times in the government's case...

Scott Dekraai, the man accused of killing eight people at a Seal Beach hair salon in 2011, intends to plead guilty to eight counts of special circumstances murder and one count of attempted murder, his lawyer told the court Monday.
The plea does not...

On an October morning, Scott Dekraai strapped on a bulletproof vest, armed himself with three semiautomatic handguns and stalked into the tiny hair salon where his ex-wife worked, shooting as he walked from station to station.
When he was done, he walked...

An LAPD officer who allegedly beat a teenage relative over poor grades and behavior was charged in Orange County this week with felony child abuse and corporal injury.
Prosecutors say Daniel Hun Chun, 39, was off duty March 13 when he allegedly...

A Costa Mesa man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he sold pot brownies to Newport Harbor High School students, sickening them.
Isaac Adam Greer, 33, a self-described gang member, appeared in Orange County Superior Court on two felony...

An attorney representing a group of Muslim students found guilty of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador said she will appeal the case, which she said tests whether “peaceful, measured student protests” should be a crime.
"We are...

There is enough evidence for the accused killer of a prominent Newport Beach doctor to stand trial on murder charges next month, an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday.
Stanwood Elkus, 76, is facing a special-circumstances murder charge...

A master shipwright who spent the last years of his life fighting Newport Beach City Hall over whether he could restore a 72-foot boat in his residential yard has died.
Dennis Holland lost a battle with prostate cancer Monday night, a family friend...

Dennis Holland, a legendary Orange County boat builder who simultaneously battled cancer and city hall as he tried to knit together one last vessel, has died. He was 68.
The master shipwright lost his years-long fight with prostate cancer Monday night....

An Orange County Superior Court judge has cleared the way for evidence-gathering in a lawsuit filed by two Costa Mesa councilmen who allege members of their city's police union harassed and intimidated them.
That means a past president of the Costa...

A 24-year-old man was sentenced to four years in state prison for pimping a woman in Orange County after meeting her on an online dating website, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Everett Arnold Walker, who lived in Las Vegas, met the 26-year-old woman in...

Police have ended their search for the bodies of three women who prosecutors say were killed by a pair of registered sex offenders in Orange County.
The victims, four in all, went missing starting last the fall from Santa Ana and Anaheim but the...

Two witnesses to a brawl outside a Santa Ana nightclub that left a woman dead have been barred from testifying about what they saw in a video of the fight because the video cannot be found.
The witnesses, who are brothers, were apparently prepared to...

In an indictment of California's death penalty, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that decades-long delays and uncertainty about whether condemned inmates will ever be executed violate the constitution's ban on cruel or unusual punishment.
The ruling by...

A Newport Beach school teacher arrested earlier this year on suspicion of hoarding and neglecting hundreds of snakes pleaded guilty Thursday to one misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty.
In January, animal control officers found at least 400...

The Orange County District Attorney’s office has filed a lawsuit against General Motors, alleging the company engaged in unfair competition and false advertising in violation of California law when it failed to disclose defects.
The lawsuit filed...

A Placentia public works director who earned a second salary working for the city as a highly paid consultant on an ambitious rail project could be ordered to prison if he fails to pay back a large share of his earnings to the north Orange County town...